All Films

The Disco Shines

2016 • 12 min • Spain, Turkey

Saturday, April. Nice weather. The shadow of the mountain grows as evening falls. Five boys get ready for the night: they have booze, a car and music. No matter if the disco shut down years ago.

Night-Fly

2016 • 27 min • Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany

Zhanel is trapped in a life devoid of purpose. Unable to face the real world, she finds safe harbor in her wild and beautiful dreams. With the help of a psychiatrist she meets in her dreamscape, Zhanel tackles her problems and discovers her deeper self.

Nine Behind

2016 • 12 min • Canada

Calling her grandfather in Budapest to learn about the Hungarian film industry, a woman instead finds the conversation shifting to her family’s history.

Lookouts

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

On their final trial as village Lookouts, a troop of young scouts are ambushed by the very creature they were hunting. After a violent battle the lone survivor, Pehn, escapes into the shadows of the Eyrewood, a mysterious and deadly forest that is home to all manner of wild creatures. The most horrifying of all is the Basilisk, a winged titan with the power to turn its prey into stone. This is the beast the troop of "Lookouts" were seeking, and now it hunts for Pehn. With guidance from the stories foretold by his Mother and words or warning passed down from his mentor, Pehn struggles to find the courage he'll need to confront his fate and defeat the horrifying creature that pursues him.

Eliyahu Rips: The Burning

2016 • 55 min • Latvia

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital for two years. Thanks to international pressure from the mathematical community in 1972 he was allowed to emigrate to Israel. Now he is considered one of the most brilliant mathematicians in the world. At the same time, for most people familiar with his name, Rips is first of all associated with the development of the so called Bible Code – a mathematical program allegedly helping to decipher hidden messages encoded in Torah – the Five Books of Moses. He is attacked by both the scientific and religious community, yet his research continues.

Culiaos

2016 • 16 min • Chile

Bondhu Othoba Bonduker Golpo

2016 • 21 min • Bangladesh

This is a story of two friends meeting after a long time. It begins with a great deal of nostalgia shared between two friends. But as it unfolds, we see how relationships tend to be defined by the politics of the day. We find friendship and enmity intertwined into one complex reality

Take Over Your Trap

2016 • 42 min

Local trap star, Bankroll, discovers the man that put his father in prison is none other than a corrupt pastor who uses his church as a front for his drug operation.

Parallel Novel

2016 • 3 min • South Korea

A writer tries to force his character into suicide, but the character fights back.

Asphalt

2016 • 11 min • South Korea

Aerim comes to her senses on asphalt and finds a man bleeding to death.

A Bitter Taste

2016 • 20 min • Romania

An old man is in need of a surgery. He goes to the hospital pushed by his wife who has arranged everything. What it should be a simple medical intervention turns into a meeting with the destiny. Will the old man understand the meaning of this encounter?

All That You Love

2016 • 11 min • United States of America

A young cosmetic sales woman contemplates suicide in a haunted hotel.

Joan On The Phone

2016 • 5 min • United States of America

Joan delivers an overzealous apology in a series of voicemails.

The Pumpkin Man 2: Ryan's Nightmare

2016 • 5 min • United States of America

Be careful what you create, it might come back to haunt you...

The Lesson

2016 • 8 min • Czech Republic

When two teenage girls plot to steal liquor for themselves, their plan goes awry when they decide to visit their old piano teacher who's developed dementia.

One for the Road

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

Two old men help a stranger stranded in the snow, but must travel dangerously close to Salem's Lot.

Cabeza de gallo

2016 • 13 min

After a fight, a woman patiently awaits for her husband while the sadness and loneliness tear apart her heart.

My Inner Space

2016 • 4 min • China

I embrace the world with open arms. And the world embraces me all that I have experienced and that which I am yet to experience is what I want to express. I'm free-spirited and crave conversation. I seek to understand how best to communicate with others. Whilst never seeking recognition I’m brave, peace-loving lack confidence in this. Where am I, and where should I go.

Jeu de Société

2016 • 21 min

In the form of an allegory of society, the film denounces a system dominated by money and power relations while focusing on the violence that structures cause on human relations.

8 Minutes

2016 • 13 min • Lithuania

It is a story about a woman with a desperate desire to escape the reality and to fly away. But she has only eight minutes, that’s the longest sunbed session she could afford. And at the very moment when the artificial sun lamp turns off, she will have to go back to the reality. First to the cheap tanning salon, then to the everyday life with sleet, traffic jams and stress – ultimately back to the daily routine. The tiny vacation is over. But only until the next time, until the next moment of weakness.

The Velvet Abstract

2016 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A Short Film About the Environmental Age Set Against a Plethora of CG, Illustrations, and Animations from a Team Spanning Six Continents.

The Essential Cornishman

2016 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Mark Jenkin's 2015 short film is a homage to the spontaneous prose of The Beats, from the mythical Cornish west.

Zubin Mehta: Conductor and Citizen of the World

2016 • 53 min • Germany

Zubin Mehta is one of the most charismatic conductors of our time. A citizen of the world with many facets: Indian culture and Parsi spirituality, North American lifestyle and European musical tradition. The portrait accompanies Zubin Mehta to current places of activity and important stages of his life. [arte.de]

TU MADRE ES PVTA: detrás del éxito

2016 • 24 min • Spain

The legendary shock rock band from the 90s returns to the stage after being gone for more than a decade. This Mockumentary tells the story of this return to public life and the evolution of the members during these years.